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First-year engineering courses are designed to give you theoretical and practical grounding in how things work: How chemical reactions occur; how things yield under stress and how things stay together; how sound and light behave; how particles move.
First-year courses also teach you to think like an engineer. You will learn about the logical and rigorous framework of mathematics and physics. You will learn to ask the right questions and apply problem-solving principles. You will learn to use the power of the computer as a tool to support your thinking.
In your first year, you will also learn about the engineering profession: the disciplines of engineering, career and work opportunities, ethical issues, your professional responsibilities, as well as the history and development of the engineering profession.
Students who apply to engineering usually do so because they are motivated by practical challenges. One of the biggest challenges for first-year engineering students is making the adjustment to university study. Studying engineering is not only rewarding; it is challenging, time-consuming work. Most courses have laboratories and seminars in addition to regular lectures. In addition to spending approximately 25 hours in classes and labs each week, you can expect to spend a further 25 hours on class preparation and student assignments.
What You Take
In the fall term of your first year, you will study introductory chemistry, engineering mechanics, calculus, physics, a course on the engineering profession, and one elective that you may choose from the arts and humanities.
The winter term extends your studies of chemistry, calculus, and physics, and also includes applied linear algebra and computer programming for engineers.
Fall
CHEM 103 Introductory University Chemistry I
Atoms and molecules, states of matter, chemistry of the elements.
ENGG 100 Orientation to the Engineering Profession I
An introduction to the Faculty and the engineering profession: the engineering disciplines, study skills, cooperative education, work opportunities, engineering, and society.
ENGG 130 Engineering Mechanics
Equilibrium of planar systems. Analysis of statically determinate trusses and frames. Friction. Centroids and centres of gravity. Forces and moments in beams. Second moments of area.
MATH 100 Calculus I
Review of numbers, inequalities, functions, analytic geometry; limits, continuity; derivatives and application, Taylor polynomials; log, exp, and inverse trig functions. Integration, fundamental theorem of calculus substitution, trapezoidal and Simpson’s rules.
PHYS 130 Wave Motion, Optics, and Sound
Geometrical optics, optical instruments, oscillations, waves, sound, interference, diffraction.
Complementary Studies Elective
One of: Anthropologie, Anthropology, Art History, Canadian Studies, Canadien-Français, Christian Theology, Classics, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, Etudes de la religion, Family Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophie, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychologie, Psychology, Religious Studies, Rural Economy, Science Politique, Slavic and East European Studies, Sociologie, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Writing.
Winter
CHEM 105 Introductory University Chemistry II
Rates of reactions, thermodynamics and equilibrium, electrochemistry, modern applications of chemistry.
ENGG 101 Orientation to the Engineering Profession II
An introduction to the engineering profession and its challenges: career fields, professional responsibilities of the engineer, ethics, and the history and development of the engineering profession.
EN PH 131 Mechanics
Kinematics and dynamics of particles; gravitation; work and energy; linear momentum; angular momentum; systems of particles; introduction to dynamics of rigid bodies.
MATH 101 Calculus II
Area between curves, techniques of integration. Applications of integration to planar areas and lengths, volumes and masses. First order ordinary differential equations: separable, linear, direction fields, Euler’s method, applications. Infinite series, power series, Taylor expansions with remainder terms. Polar coordinates, Rectangular, spherical and cylindrical coordinates in 3-dimensional space. Parametric curves in the plane and space: graphing, arc length, curvature; normal, binomial, tangent plane in 3-dimenstional space. Volumes and surface areas of rotation.
MATH 102 Applied Linear Algebra
Vectors and matrices, solution of linear equations, equations of lines and planes, determinants, matrix algebra, orthogonality and applications (Gram-Schmidt), eigenvalues and eigenvectors and applications, complex numbers.
ENCMP 100 Computer Programming for Engineers
Fundamentals of computer programming with emphasis on solving engineering problems. C/C++ language implementation. Syntax, variables, statements, control structures, loops, functions, data structures, files, pointers, memory use. Procedural and object-oriented programming. Objects, inheritance, polymorphism.
